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On the recordMarch 8, 2022
The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe). The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 19, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 71 Leg.] YEAS--79 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cortez Masto Cotton Cramer Daines Duckworth Durbin Ernst Feinstein Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hassan Hawley Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Kaine Kelly Kennedy King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Lummis Manchin Markey Marshall McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--19 Blackburn Braun Cornyn Crapo Cruz Hyde-Smith Johnson Lankford Lee Paul Risch Romney Rubio Sasse Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Shelby Toomey Tuberville NOT VOTING--2 Hagerty Inhofe The bill (H.R. 3076) was passed. ____________________
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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